about:mozilla - New CEO, FOSDEM, SeaMonkey, Places Testday, two awards, and more
In this issue…
- John Lilly appointed CEO of Mozilla Corporation
- Join Mozilla in Brussels for FOSDEM 2008
- SeaMonkey: new Council, Alpha criteria
- Places Testday, Friday 18 January
- Mozilla Support community looking for volunteers
- Recent additions to Planet Mozilla
- Mozilla one of the “Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008″
- Firefox wins .Net Magazine’s “Open Source Application of the Year”
- Developer Calendar
- Subscribe to the email newsletter
John Lilly appointed CEO of Mozilla Corporation
On January 7th, 2008 Mozilla announced that John Lilly is moving from the position of Chief Operating Officer to Chief Executive Officer for the Mozilla Corporation. Mitchell Baker will continue as the Chairman of the Mozilla Corporation. More details are available in the official press release and FAQ, and both John and Mitchell have blogged about these changes.
Join Mozilla in Brussels for FOSDEM 2008
FOSDEM, the largest Free Software and Open Source event in Europe, will be taking place in Brussels over the weekend of Feb 23-24, and entrance is free of charge.
Come along and meet other Mozilla and Open Source contributors and visit the many developer rooms that will be open for everybody during the two day event. A large number of Mozilla’s EU folks will be there, and some international visitors too.
Go to our FOSDEM 2008 wiki page where you can find more information. If you are interested in applying for sponsorship for hotel and travel, please highlight this in the Wiki and contact Anne-Julie Ligneau (ajligneau -at- mozilla-europe.org). We are also looking for people to hold talks in the Mozilla room, so if you feel you could share some knowledge with fellow Mozillians, please get in touch with Brian King, (brian -at- mozdev.org) - there are a few slots still available.
SeaMonkey: new Council, Alpha criteria
The SeaMonkey project, a community effort that continues development of the Mozilla’s Internet suite application, has restructured its project leading committee, dubbed the “SeaMonkey Council”: Chris Thomas has left the team, and Mark Banner, Karsten Düsterloh and Andrew Schultz have joined the Council.
On the development side, the SeaMonkey team is busy with reworking the suite to use a more modern framework shared with Firefox, Thunderbird and other Mozilla-based applications. A set of criteria for a first alpha release of this SeaMonkey 2 version has been posted.
Places Testday, Friday 18 January
Please join the Mozilla QA community for the upcoming Places Testday on Friday, 18 January. In preparation for Firefox 3 Beta 3, we will be testing the new “Places” bookmark and history system. The event will run from 7am to 5pm Pacific time. For more information about how to prepare for and get involved with the Test day, check out QMO, the Mozilla QA portal.
Mozilla Support community looking for volunteers
If you’ve ever wanted to get involved with the Mozilla community, here’s your chance. The Mozilla Support community is looking for more volunteers to help staff the new “Live Chat” feature at the SUMO (support.mozilla.com) site. The Live Chat hours are already being extended from 9am to 3pm Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and from 12pm to 4pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but more volunteers are needed. If you’d like to help out, see Majken’s blog post for more details.
Recent additions to Planet Mozilla
Planet Mozilla, the primary blog aggregator for the Mozilla community, has had several new folks added to the blog roll. These include the SeaMonkey trunk tracker feed, Majken Connor, Madhava Enros, Matthew Gertner’s “Just Browsing” blog, Mic Berman, Michael Ventnor, Smokey Ardison, Zbigniew Braniecki, and Brad Lassey. The Planet Mozilla blog has more information about who these folks are and what they do.
Mozilla one of the “Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008″
Linux Magazine has named Mozilla one of its “Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008″. “With Firefox 3.0 on the horizon, we think that the MozCorp folks are important to watch for a couple of reasons. First, because Firefox has been, slowly but surely, increasing its market share over the past few years. Second because Web applications are becoming increasingly important for users and Firefox is at the forefront of enabling more elegant Web applications. Specifically, the work on offline applications that has gone into Firefox 3.0 is likely to be very important to vendors producing Web applications– and important to the users of those apps.” See Linux Magazine’s post for more details.
Firefox wins .Net Magazine’s “Open Source Application of the Year”
Firefox has won the Open Source Application of the Year in the .Net Awards sponsored by .Net Magazine. Runners-up, all excellent open source projects, were: Ruby on Rails, WordPress, Drupal, and Open Office. Notes, quotes, and more information are available at the .Net magazine award announcements.
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